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Since the 1990s I have been very involved with fighting the military "don't ask don't tell" policy for gays in the military, and with First Amendment issues. Best contact is 571-334-6107 (legitimate calls; messages can be left; if not picked up retry; I don't answer when driving) Three other url's: doaskdotell.com, billboushka.com johnwboushka.com Links to my URLs are provided for legitimate content and user navigation purposes only.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Naomi Wolf's "The End of America"

I had reviewed Naomi Wolf’s “Give Me Liberty” on Nov. 3, 2008
on the Books blog. Here earlier book “The
End of America”, from Chelsea Green, in 2007, becomes this 75-minute film from
Indiepix.

This film consists largely of a lecture by Wolf where she
outlines the ten steps that turn a democratic society in to a totalitarian
state. She says that the Bush administration has followed these steps since
9/11.

There are many notes and examples for each step, and she
often compares the steps taken by the Bush administration to those of Nazi
Germany. She mentions that until 1933, Germany had gay rights and an open
society. The film introduces its subject
matter with some graphic, but brief, footage from 9/11 and the 2004 commuter
train attack in Madrid and 2005 underground attack in London.

The Geneva convention was said not to apply the “war on
terror”; it does not allow the military to torture under any conditions of
war. I remember this from my own Basic
Training in 1968!

The president can declare anyone an enemy combatant.
Theoretically, a blogger could be accused of “aiding the enemy” under the Patriot
and Military Commissions Acts. Wolf says that this provision is an existential threat
to journalists.

She describes Blackwater in Iraq as a paramilitary force. But she says mercenaries shot at civilians in
New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Naomi Wolf says she is on the TSA watch list, was is Drew
Griffin. So was Iraq war critic David Antoon, who says his boarding passes (and
all those of family members) have “4S’s” on them. I never looked at mine!

Chaplain James Yee was held in solitary confinement for 76
days for supposedly using classified information for a master’s paper. Another
man was sent back to Syria where he was bodily tortured.

Dan Rather apparently lost his anchor position with CBS
under pressure from the Bush administration; and the Valerie Plame (“Fair Game”,
Nov. 5, 2010) incident was mentioned.

She discusses the jailing of Josh Wolf, who refused to turn
over a video of a protest he had filmed.
He was sentenced to prison, and stayed in a small cell for 8 months.

At the end, she notes that dissent was perceived as a duty
by the Founding Fathers.

W. once said, “If this was a dictatorship, it would be a lot
easier. Just as long as I’m the
dictator.”

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